Coloring book · From the Block Coloring Books, Book 5
From the Block to the Holidays
Our People, Our Story, Your Colors
Ages 8 and up
An African American holiday story you color yourself: Christmas, Kwanzaa and Watch Night.
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Zuri has three dollars and one button, and a whole family to buy presents for. Her brother Malik is no help. He's saving up for headphones. So on Christmas morning, when everyone trades gifts, Zuri's hands are empty.
Then Grandma Pearl sets out the kinara. Over the seven days of Kwanzaa, from Umoja to Imani, Zuri learns that the best gifts aren't bought. Along the way the family goes caroling for Mr. Bell, shovels out the block, shops with their neighbors and walks to church on New Year's Eve for Watch Night, where Grandma tells them about Freedom's Eve, December 31, 1862.
Every picture has a short caption, so it's a book you can read as well as color.
A warm stocking stuffer for African American kids and grandkids.
What's inside
- 49 full-page pictures that tell one complete holiday story
- Grandma Pearl's Kwanzaa Notes at the front: colorable cards on Kwanzaa, its seven principles and Watch Night, each with the page where it appears
- Christmas, all seven days and principles of Kwanzaa, and Watch Night
- An African American family and neighborhood, with natural hair of every kind
- A blank page at the end to draw a gift for someone you love
- Each picture printed on one side of the page, 8.5 x 11 inches
A peek inside
For grown-ups Tell me when it's out
More in this series
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Back Porch
An African American family story you can color. Every square is somebody's story.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Ballot Box
The African American fight for the vote, in a story you can color.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Stars
African American pioneers of the sky and a kid with a cardboard telescope.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Big Stage
African American music, from the stoop to the spotlight.